Dragon curve

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Dragon curve

The dragon curve can be tiled to fill a plane.

A dragon curve is a well-known recursively defined fractal curve, similar in vein to the von Koch snowflake.

It can be formed by paper-folding methods and can be written as a Lindenmayer system with

• initial string FX
• string rewriting rules
  • X X+YF+
  • Y -FX-Y
• angle 90°

Paper folding

You can make a dragon curve by folding a strip of paper always to the same side, and then unfolding it 90 degrees (see below).

External links

• Dragon Curve (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DragonCurve.html)—from MathWorld
• Paperfolding and the Dragon curve (http://www.math.okstate.edu/mathdept/dynamics/lecnotes/node17.html)
• The Mystery of the Paper Dragon (http://philosophy.kitoba.com/fractal/meta1.html#ex1) from the Metaphysics of Chaos

es:curva del dragón

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